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The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

 

[ID:4809] From: Dr William Cullen (Professor Cullen) / To: Mrs Jane Pearson / Regarding: Miss Hannah Pearson (Patient) / 3 April 1784 / (Outgoing)

Reply, 'For Miss Hannah Pearson'. Cullen encloses a recipe for Aperient Pectoral Pills.

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Metadata

FieldData
DOC ID 4809
RCPE Catalogue Number CUL/1/1/17/5
Main Language English
Document Direction Outgoing
Date3 April 1784
Annotation None
TypeMachine copy
Enclosure(s) Enclosure(s) present
Autopsy No
Recipe Yes
Regimen No
Letter of Introduction No
Case Note No
Summary Reply, 'For Miss Hannah Pearson'. Cullen encloses a recipe for Aperient Pectoral Pills.
Manuscript Incomplete? No
Evidence of Commercial Posting No

Case

Cases that this document belongs to:

Case ID Description Num Docs
[Case ID:532]
Case of Miss Hannah Pearson, a young woman with a menstrual irregularity, who conditon is diagnosed as nervous and hysteric.
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[PERS ID:1]AuthorDr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:2639]AddresseeMrs Jane Pearson
[PERS ID:2638]PatientMiss Hannah Pearson
[PERS ID:3087]Patient's Physician / Surgeon / ApothecaryDr Aurey
[PERS ID:1]Patient's Physician / Surgeon / ApothecaryDr William Cullen (Professor Cullen)
[PERS ID:2639]Patient's Relative / Spouse / FriendMrs Jane Pearson

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Place of Writing Cullen's House / Mint Close Edinburgh Edinburgh and East Scotland Europe certain
Destination of Letter Greysouthen (Graysouthen) North-West England Europe inferred

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For Miss Hannah Pearson


I have again considered this case and from the
present circumstances ↑suspect↑ that it is considerably changed
as the Vomitings have ceased and a natural discharge
has taken place and as I hope mild weather is
now coming on it may be expected that (↑her↑) natural
discharges will take their due course. I hope the
Cough she is now troubled with is no other than
what Dr Aurey judges it to be a Catarrh from
accidental cold but I think a little time will
be necessary to make this certain and in the mean¬
time I cannot advise the Electricity that I propo¬
sed in my last. Neither do I think the powders
formerly proposed to be either necessary or proper
at present {illeg} measures to be thought of
at present {illeg} might put {illeg} her
{illeg}



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and be otherwise warmly cloathed. Let her avoid
walking out into the cold air but as soon as the
weather is tolerably mild let her get on horseback
and in that way tak every forenoon take what
exercise she can easily bear. At the same time
let her use the Pills prescribed on other page
as I judge them fit for her in every view,
I can take of her ailments. If her cough is
is particularly troublesome upon her lying down
at night she may take an hour before bed
time a dose of an Opiate but unless the demand
for it is pressing I would rather have her let
it alone. If however she takes any thing of
that kind let care be taken by other medicine
to prevent costiveness.

William Cullen

Edinburgh 3d. April
1784



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For Miss Hannah Pearson

Take three drachms of liquorice extract and one drachm of very good Myrrh. Add to the extract small, concise amounts of boiling water of a sufficient quantity to soften it, and crush it into a pulp; to this add the Myrrh, ground to a thin powder, and a sufficient quantity of water make a mass to be divided into single five grain pills. Label: Aperient Pectoral Pills three to be taken every night at bedtime and two every forenoon, washing them down with a little watergruel.


3d April
1784.
W. C.

Diplomatic Text

[Page 1]
For Miss Hannah Pearson


I have again considered this case and from the
present circumstances ↑suspect↑ that it is considerably changed
as the Vomitings have ceased and a natural discharge
has taken place and as I hope mild weather is
now coming on it may be expected that (↑her↑) natural
discharges will take their due course. I hope the
Cough she is now troubled with is no other than
what Dr Aurey judges it to be a Catarrh from
accidental cold but I think a little time will
be necessary to make this certain and in the mean¬
time I cannot advise the Electricity that I propo¬
sed in my last. Neither do I think the powders
formerly proposed to be either necessary or proper
at present {illeg} measures to be thought of
at present {illeg} might put {illeg} her
{illeg}



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and be otherwise warmly cloathed. Let her avoid
walking out into the cold air but as soon as the
weather is tolerably mild let her get on horseback
and in that way tak every forenoon take what
exercise she can easily bear. At the same time
let her use the Pills prescribed on other page
as I judge them fit for her in every view,
I can take of her ailments. If her cough is
is particularly troublesome upon her lying down
at night she may take an hour before bed
time a dose of an Opiate but unless the demand
for it is pressing I would rather have her let
it alone. If however she takes any thing of
that kind let care be taken by other medicine
to prevent costiveness.

William Cullen

Edinr 3d. April
1784



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For Miss Hannah Pearson


Extract. glycyrrh. Ʒiij
Myrrh. opt. Ʒj
Extracto in frustula minuta conciso adde aquæ fervent. q. s.
ut mollescat et in pulpam contundatur cui adde Myrrham
in pulverem tenuem tritam et cum aquæ q. s. f. massa
dividenda in pil. Sing. gr. v
Signa Aperient Pectoral Pills three to be taken
every night at bedtime and two every forenoon
washing them down with a little watergruel


3d April
1784.
W. C.

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